The Intergalactic Surprise

By Joan C Mullins

The Intergalactic Surprise

This story takes place within the vast mountains of East Tennessee. Helen lived with her mother and father while she attended school and worked at the No Stop Diner.

Helen loved the outer space, and she dreamed of flying on a space ship to meet an alien. Her boyfriend, Frank, wanted the same dream, so they both became astronauts.

This is the story of their dreams and about the adventure they will have.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jul 17, 2017
• ISBN: 9781543434835

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Copyright © 2017 by JOAN C. MULLINS. 740437

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Rev. date: 07/27/2017

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CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5: Boarding Time

Chapter 6: The Countdown

Chapter 7: The Mission

This Story Does Not Have An Ending

Welcome To The Planets

We Believe In Aliens

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I would like to thank the site of Pixabay for all the free photos that were allowed me to use for my story book, including NASA.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Space Facts.Com

Science: How stuff works NASA

NASA’S       How Astronauts train:

                    Space Food

                    Sleep Plumbing 101

                    Rocket Principles

                    Astronauts get seated onboard the Shuttle

                    Space Shuttle count down

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: to all the people/names that give information with the articles they write for NASA. The men and women write so we can understand some of (How Stuff Works) before astronauts fly into space and while in space.

So if you would like more information please look at NASA’s website and other sites pertaining to our glorious, wondrous outer space.

CHAPTER

1

Within the vast mountains of East Tennessee among the Great Smoky Mountains with its many narrow rivers and valleys and heavily forested foot hills Helen lived with her mother and father in a charming log cabin. Her father had built this cabin with all his sweat and heart and Helen loved the quaintest of it.

Generations of the Foleys were all mountaineers. Helen had many dreams and wanted to have many adventures. She did not want to be remembered as one of the ole mountaineers.

One of Helen’s most dreamed adventures was that she would fly on a space ship to meet an alien.

The darkness of the night was always thrilling to Helen. She loved to